Arts & Books

An Only Child Named Friday

Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp It can indeed be...

The Fortress of Delusion: Satire, Power and Self-Deception

By Enam Obiosio Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s ‘White Men Can’t Write’ is not merely a short story. It is a political fable disguised as absurdist comedy,...

June 17 Is Achebe Day Because Of ‘Things Fall Apart’

On Tuesday, June 17, 1958, Things Fall Apart was published in England. The book has over the years become a standout phenomenon as one of...

Re-Reading the Sacred Suicide of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is an acknowledged classic of world theatre. It has been staged across the continents to wide...

Successful People Lead The Way

A Taste Of Success by Azuh Arinze; Yes International Ventures, Akute, Ogun State; 2022; 298pp One way of making a success of one’s life is...

There Is No Business Like Show Business

Conversations With Showbiz Stars by Azuh Arinze; YES International Ventures, Akute, Ogun State; 2022; 294pp The 1954 American film There Is No Business Like Show...

My Magic Music Man Majek Fashek

It takes a playfully mischievous magician to conjure heavy rain to beat on his audience once he takes the stage. Mischief sits well in the...

The First Lady of Charity

Rendering public service in any capacity needs to be documented in a book so that posterity can have a handle on the affairs of...

Meeting The Mind Of The Almighty At Heaven On Earth

Oasis In The Desert Of Time – Critical Perspectives on the Nature of GOD for Cosmic-Consciousness & Spiritual Growth by Godson Onochie Amechi; Ezu...

From Out Of The Shadows To Unfinished Greatness

Ekiti State Governor John Kayode Fayemi has remained an ever-present at every stage of Nigeria’s democratic drive. He was on the frontline in the...

The Centrist Manifesto of The New World Ideology

The Centrist Manifesto by Uchenna Nwankwo; Centrist Books – An Imprint of Centrist Productions Ltd, Ikeja, Lagos; 2022; 202pp Books that change history do not...

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The Right To Participate In Politics

Understandably and regrettably, most politicians are not lawyers. As a result, they are not always sure of their political rights. They often rely on opinion leaders and views expressed in newspapers and magazines, which are often misleading, inaccurate or biased...

Where Thieves Are Kings!

One of these days, a keen and enterprising researcher or historian would hopefully assign to himself the really profound and very challenging task of determining when and how looting and plundering became the defining character of leadership in Nigeria...

Mildred Okwo: Girl Uninterrupted

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Attahiru Jega and the Search for a Nigerian Hero

Nigerians seem to be in constant search for public heroes - competent little messiahs who will not hesitate to put their conscience above their life or subordinate self to the common good despite temptations and inconveniences of doing so...

Princes And Princesses On The Streets

The season we are in is very much still appropriate to redeem the glory-past; except of course if we are content and would desire an extreme madhouse...

President Buhari Must Succeed

“Failure is not an option for us. We will...

True Heroes of Africa

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization...

Echoes from Ekiti, lifelines in Osun

With growing doubts about the efficacy of institutions in...

Governor Alamieyeseigha and His Wahala

Ha, Alamieyeseigha’s wahala, if guilty, must not become Ijaw’ wahala; for this man has set us the Ijaws back two decades in terms of growth and development. He was already a disgrace and a monumental failure long before this alleged money laundering story anyway...

Times Are Changing In There

I think that the moment we move away from discussing our social, economic and political issues and get into attacking personalities, that we will no longer be any different from those we have so conveniently blamed for our problems in Nigeria...